what did MacRumors look like when you joined?

[dmmcintyre3]

Go to http://web.archive.org/*/http://macrumors.com and click on the date closest to your join date and take a screenshot of the window.

[dukebound85]

here
http://web.archive.org/web/20050715013723/http://macrumors.com/

[xUKHCx]

You could look through the archive

http://www.macrumors.com/site.php?mode=archive

However I suppose you do not see the adverts/prices and if you are a really old member it will look different.

I had actually forgotten why exactly I joined up but seeing what was on the homepage at the time

http://www.macrumors.com/2006/01/15/macworld-san-francisco-2006-rumor-wrapup-winners-and-losers/

I can now remember, I had been tracking the rumors surrounding the intel iMac release. I had been a lurker here since pre iMac G5 release and bought the iMac G5 after following the keynote coverage here (unfortunately it was a rev A and a total lemon hence me following the Intels).

[Cassie]

http://web.archive.org/web/20060904210606/http://www.macrumors.com/

Cool, I joined around the same time Forum Spy did. :D

[Jaffa Cake]

I can't get the actual date I joined through dmmcintyre3's link, but the following one does show a story from my join date of 1st August 2004 which unfortunately still has relevance today– it turned out Steve Jobs had sent an email out to his staff to let them know he'd recently gone under the knife to remove a rare form of pancreatic cancer... (http://web.archive.org/web/20040804020136/http://www.macrumors.com/)

[UMHurricanes34]

I think I joined due to the iPod nano?

http://web.archive.org/web/20050907204916/http://www.macrumors.com/

[fireshot91]

Looks like the current version.


I joined because my cousin gave me an iPhone 16GB (First gen), and now I'm a proud owner of a Power Mac G5, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 16GB, and a couple of other crap you don't care about because Apple doesn't manufacture it:p

No seriously, I got a summer job this summer just so I can pay for a new Mac.

...like, I'm probably going to get around $1500, after 50% goes in the bank, so it looks like refurb iMac right now.

[queshy]

interesting thread!

[aaron.lee2006]

http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/23/ipod-video-photo/

WOW lol

[lozanoj83]

http://web.archive.org/web/20060305080626/www.macrumors.com/

Wow... I feel old now...
lol

[MacDawg]

March 2004 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040326074435/http://macrumors.com/)

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[michael.lauden]

You could look through the archive

http://www.macrumors.com/site.php?mode=archive

However I suppose you do not see the adverts/prices and if you are a really old member it will look different.

I had actually forgotten why exactly I joined up but seeing what was on the homepage at the time

http://www.macrumors.com/2006/01/15/macworld-san-francisco-2006-rumor-wrapup-winners-and-losers/

I can now remember, I had been tracking the rumors surrounding the intel iMac release. I had been a lurker here since pre iMac G5 release and bought the iMac G5 after following the keynote coverage here (unfortunately it was a rev A and a total lemon hence me following the Intels).


apple 42" plasmas? hahaha

[Mr. Giver '94]

I joined last June the day the iPhone 3G was announced. :)

[bartelby]

Boring stuff about the iTunes Music Store:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040616004712/http://macrumors.com/

[plinkoman]

July 2003, I win

rumors of an Apple & IBM partnership, early panther screenshots, and speculation that the music store might go international.

Things certainly have changed.

[pb1300]

here
http://web.archive.org/web/20050715013723/http://macrumors.com/

Wooohoooo Motorola and iTunes!!!! Oh wait...

[dmmcintyre3]

here
http://web.archive.org/web/20050715013723/http://macrumors.com/

If you clicked the other link you would have a PB G5! (http://web.archive.org/web/20050117092318/http://www.macrumors.com)

I have a iPod thing on mine. (http://web.archive.org/web/20070304130901/http://www.macrumors.com/)

What convinced me to join was actually a MacPoll from 2002 that I think came up on google searching for who knows what.

[WildCowboy]

I guess I can admit that this (http://web.archive.org/web/20010708122011/http://www.macrumors.com/) is what it looked like when I started following MacRumors...July 2001.

I resisted signing up for the forums for three-and-a-half years for fear of getting sucked into it, but I lost that battle when the original iPod shuffle was released. And here I am four years later doing it full-time. :D

[Unprocessed1]

I guess I can admit that this (http://web.archive.org/web/20010708122011/http://www.macrumors.com/) is what it looked like when I started following MacRumors...July 2001.

I resisted signing up for the forums for three-and-a-half years for fear of getting sucked into it, but I lost that battle when the original iPod shuffle was released. And here I am four years later doing it full-time. :D

Of all things a 2004 ipod shuffle compelled you to be an active MR member?

:D :D

[WildCowboy]

Of all things a 2004 ipod shuffle compelled you to be an active MR member?

:D :D

Hey, it was a ground-breaking product. Hard to imagine looking back at it, but it was pretty darn cool at the time. Tiny 1 GB iPod that doubled as a USB flash drive for only $150! :)

[bc008]

Hey, it was a ground-breaking product. Hard to imagine looking back at it, but it was pretty darn cool at the time. Tiny 1 GB iPod that doubled as a USB flash drive for only $150! :)

haha and I had two of those things.. I was the coolest kid in school when i brought my 512 mb to school (And I couldnt fill it! LOL)

[jmann]

Comp USA was going to close. Boring. ;)

http://web.archive.org/web/20071208095813/http://www.macrumors.com/

[NC MacGuy]

Mac OSX on a PC, along with Apples confirmation of the PPC platform.:rolleyes:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050209031529/http://www.macrumors.com/

[Schtumple]

I remember joining right before the switch to Intel, but I was still set on buying the iMac G5, I didn't realise back then how much of a big deal it all was :p

I remember voting on that poll in the top left, so somewhere around here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050612021659/http://macrumors.com/

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/158723/Hosting%20Folder/MacRumors/Picture%201.jpg

Just to clarify, this wasn't when I first joined the forums, I lurked for a good 2 years before joining the forums, I didn't want to be asking the same n00by questions that I kept seeing in forum spy :p

[Chrispy]

December 28, 2004 - Apple To Be New Mobile Carrier?

[edesignuk]

I just remember the forums being vB 2 (I think) with the default purple skin. sexy!

180558

Archive.org (http://web.archive.org/web/20020811013056/http://forums.macrumors.com/)

[jessica.]

I was just about to order my first Mac and there was some question I had about why windows CPUs were around 3.0 ghz and Mac's were hovering below 2.0.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050219014921/http://macrumors.com/

[mdawg911]

I just joined today so....

[Dagless]

Heh, good topic.

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[dmmcintyre3]

iPodYourBMW Ad
I have that on my PB

I just remember the forums being vB 2 (I think) with the default purple skin. sexy!

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[Love]

http://web.archive.org/web/20070101192759/http://www.macrumors.com/

[bowzer]

lol scroll down to see someones iphone concept from 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010418143427/http://macrumors.com/


I joined in April 2005... Im pretty sure I had been a lurker for long before that though. Big news in april 2005 was Motorola's iTunes phone coming soon... remember how ****** that thing was?? lol

[kainjow]

http://web.archive.org/web/20000606134346/http://www.macrumors.com/

Nothing too exciting going on, except... Apple Serious about Games? :D

Edit: few weeks later (http://web.archive.org/web/20000621171512/http://www.macrumors.com/): Mac OS X Q&A